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Eric Lach

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Eric Lach is a reporter for TPM. From 2010 to 2011, he was a news writer in charge of the website?s front page. He has previously written for The Daily, NewYorker.com, GlobalPost and other publications. He can be reached at ericl@talkingpointsmemo.com

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A site dedicated to monitoring air-traffic control conversations has recorded what it says is a back-and-forth between the JFK control tower and the Emirates Airlines flight boarded by Faisal Shahzad, a suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing.

Florida State Sen. Mike Bennett (R) was just trying to pass the time as his colleagues talked about what he apparently thought was some dull, dull abortion bill, when he got caught looking at a very NSFTSF image (Not Safe For The Senate Floor).

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has come under fire from the left for signing her state's controversial immigration bill into law. But she told Fox News' Megyn Kelly today that people outside the state don't really understand the issue: Arizona has been under "terrorist attacks" from illegal immigration.

In a letter addressed to the entire school, University of Arizona President Robert Shelton said that the campus has already started to feel the effects of Arizona's new immigration law, and that "a number of" out-of-state students had let the school know they would were changing their plans and would attend other universities.

Iowa Republican Congressional hopeful Dr. Pat Bertroche thinks the immigration debate in this country is hopelessly stuck, and says he was only trying to get the dialogue jump-started when he suggested we place microchips in illegal immigrants.

At a bond appeal hearing for members of the Hutaree militia on Wednesday, a federal judge questioned prosecutors about the evidence being used to justify holding all nine defendants until trial, according to a report in The Detroit News.

U.S. District Judge Victoria A. Roberts said that the seditious conspiracy charge requires proof of "imminent lawless action ... against the United States."

The chief operating officer of Scott Rothstein's former law firm has been charged with conspiring to launder money from Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, according to a report in The Miami Herald.

On the floor of the House today, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said that health care reform had left Democrats with a "credibility gap," and criticized his opponents for "rushing a job-killing regulatory bill with promises that it will end Wall St. bailouts."